I, personally, can’t handle having more than like 6 tabs open at a time (not including pinned tabs, which I can have 1 or 2 of at a time on top of that). It gets to where I actively close tabs to try to get my tab number closer to like 2 - 4, which is usually where i’m comfortable with.
I open up walls of tabs, then methodically go through each one, diving into it for anything relevant, then closing as I back out. Although this is probably normal browser habit.